Summerfield v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably 141 W. Va. 152 - Toppins v. Oshel (1955), 128 W. Va. 94 - Johnston v. Terry (1945)
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Parkersburg Industrial Co. v. Schultz · Holly River Coal Co. v. Howell · Stow v. Wyse · Bank of America v. Banks · Griffin v. Sheffield
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A conveyance without warranty by more estoppel cuts off the assertion of any title or claim which the grantor had at the time of the conveyance, but it will not operate to pass to the grantee any title afterwards acquired by the grantor. If, however, there is a general warranty in the deed, it not only cuts off the existing title of the grantor, but precludes him from setting up any after-acquired title. It does more. Such after-acquired title inures to the benefit of the grantee and passes to him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Under our statute, such possession for 10 years gives perfect title, not a mere right to continue the possession, not a title to be lost by mere temporary abandonment of actual possession. It is not only a defensive title, but one which will sustain an action of ejectment as effectually as a deed or a grant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gill v. Colton
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.